Okay, okay, I really can't write a Sherlockian blog post about the new Marvel Studios TV show She-Hulk, Attorney At Law, no matter how much I like it, because there's nothing Sherlockian about it, right?
I mean, we have this established character, Bruce Banner and that Hulk-thing that sets him apart from the rest of us, and then bring in a female relative who seems to be better at the whole Hulk-thing than he is. Sherlock Holmes never had anything like that did he? Wellllll . . . .
Ah, Eurus. So good at disguise that she can be both John Watson's potential affair and his therapist. Somehow unable to fit into society, yet sliding so easily into role after role as she wanders in and out of Sherlock and John's lives. Just too pure a mental hulk for this world, that Eurus . . .
Of course, we still have Enola, who has a decade or so to catch up to Sherlock and is liable to be the better consulting detective when she gets to his age. But none of that gives me fodder to write about Jen Walter's, the She-Hulk, whom I've enjoyed in comics from Day One. She was a member of the Fantastic Four for a while, did you know that? Of course you did. Sign of the Four, Fantastic Four . . .
Could Jennifer Walters have an Ancestry.com connection to Walters the Wisteria Lodge constable, who got freaked out just by seeing a cook of abnormal size? Well, we all have a few folks in our line we might not be so proud of.
And as much as Watson liked Clark Russell sea stories, the good doctor never used the word "hulk" in his writings so much as Russell did -- in fact, Watson didn't at all that my little search engine can find. There's a "she-devil" in the Canon, of course, in Kitty Winter, but definitely no she-hulks. And the "she-devil" in Marvel Comics lore is a jungle gal named Shanna, in any case, not Jen Walters.
No gamma radiation in the Canon, just backgammon. No super-strength, just "super-imposing."
Ah, well, sometimes we just have to enjoy something with no Sherlock Holmes connections whatsoever, right?
Holmes confronted what Watson described as a green monster in CHAS....
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